Thanks. It's often recommended to start at the Sequences (most of which I haven't read yet): http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://wiki.lesswrong.com/

Thanks. It's often recommended to start at the Sequences (most of which I haven't read yet): http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfiction) http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfi... Here's a good one on the ways in which LessWrong can improve: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distraction_why_less/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distrac... But my 2 favorites are the ones I mentioned: A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnontime_fallacy/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnonti... Humans are not automatically strategic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_strategic/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_str... Particularly the latter. Digesting those 2 are probably responsible for most of the self-improvement gains I've made. I realized that mostly, we operate on autopilot. Now autopilot is great - when you're the one who programmed it. LessWrong is about programming your autopilot so you chart and stay on the correct course as a matter of course. Also, it would be remiss of me not to mention OvercomingBias ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/ http://www.overcomingbias.com/ ).IIRC, LessWrong is something of a spinoff from OB